Rio Claro
Visiting Rio Claro is like stopping somewhere in South Carolina or Georgia on Route 1! It's kind of a no where town with a big highway running right through the middle. It has the WalMart of grocery stores, Pali. A bank, a bunch of restaraunts that remind me more of Panama than Costa Rica and a few rundown looking hotels, that aren't that inexpensive really. My travel partner Orlando and I have been tent camping for the better part of 3 weeks along the Pacific coast. We spent the first week or so in Dominical rubbing elbows with some fishermen from a local association, which was interesting. I learned to make yet another version of fish soup from a wife of a member. We then traveled down the cost to visit Curre for a couple nights and to drop off some homegrown rice and beans to Orlando's family. After that we were headed to Corcovado, a national park that starts near Drake Bay and runs almost to Panama. Drake Bay was interesting a...